001Please rise to the pledge of >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Good evening everyone. Uh let's do approval of board meeting minutes and budget hearing minutes for July 23rd, 2025. I'll move for the approval of board meeting minutes and budget hearing minutes for July 23rd, 2025. >> I'll second that. >> Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I oppose. >> I'd like to move to excuse board members Bower and Smith from tonight's meeting. >> I'll second that. >> There's been a motion to move uh to excuse both of our board members. All in favor? >> I. All opposed and motion consent agenda. >> Oh, because I
002haven't done approval yet. Approval of meeting agenda. Thank you. >> I'll move for the approval of the meeting agenda. >> I'll second. >> Any further discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? I. >> All opposed? Passes. Consent agenda. >> I'm going to need to abstain on the consent agenda. You can abstain or we could pull the item. >> I don't know how to do that, but >> the the the board could make a decision to remove personnel hires BI to adopt um um to adopt in isolation. Um so you could actually pull out Williams and vote on that in isolation. So you can abstain from that individual or just take it as a whole. But if we leave it in Jamie of state, then we could still >> Is there a motion? >> I make a
003motion that we approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second that. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I understandain post. Motion carries. Okay. Booster fundraiser. [Music] >> That's right. Uh booster fundraiser approval. Approval of fall drill booster fundraiser. >> Um do we have any questions regarding >> just the standard little drill as >> Yeah, I think we're doing it. Hopefully we have it down. We wanted to do it on the 20th of October through the 24th. Um, I'm not 100% sure exactly how many girls we're going to be able to do. I do know that we're going to have a signup sheet for parents to help watch the kids as well as all of the booster booster parents. Um, we did they did give me this ticket with whoever. It's a certificate of
004liability insurance. It shows insurance coverage, all that kind of stuff. I mean a booster club will do all the fundraiser with it and handle all the money and all that. >> Have you spend your facility? Are you using our facility? >> We would be your facility use request on that. >> I can text Kelsey. >> I think just to make sure that you have that a day booked out like there's not something else going on. >> Okay. I'm assuming you must have >> then that's probably why that's why you need the certificate of insurance COI is for this facility booking. >> Okay. But our our pretty much our only real concern would be just making sure that you have the COI for facility use. And then this came up in other booster groups 50 item
005paper COI like a track now is using their ASB account for any school events like that because you don't have to have a COI because it all falls under the uh district's insurance if the ASB does it then they use their booster for all off-campus sites. So that's so if you wanted to avoid paying for the COI if it was a school district event with the ASB account you wouldn't need the COI district's insurance cover it >> okay but as it is >> as it is just making sure that you have the facility >> okay >> and that's why you need the COI so I'm assuming they're probably >> I'll double check the policy though >> I know you guys did not do it last year so Um, just an FYI, I've did it for
006like I don't know 13 or 14 years. So, if you need any advice or help or guidance, I would be more than happy to. >> Yeah, you're more than welcome to reach out. Perfect. >> So, and I know Kelsey knows what she's doing, but I'm >> Yeah, >> but as a parent booster, it's parents driven. So, >> yes. Yeah. Perfect. >> Appreciate that. Thank you. >> I'll move for the approval of fall drill booster fundraiser. >> I'll second that. >> Is there any further discussion? See none. All in favor? I >> I oppose. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Next item is um there any discussion items? There are none. There any public comment? None. Unfinished business. We have none. New business. Um approval of imagine learning agreement 2520. We're just seeking approval on how
007we have used um contract has been changed as egeneuity has been secured by um Imagine Learning. So our previous historic contracts have been with Egeneuity for our credit retrieval platform. Since it's a new vendor, we normally just auto renew contracts, but because it's a new vendor, we're bringing it forward. >> I'll move the approval of Imagine Learning agreement for 2526. All pass. Motion to approve magic learning agreement. All in favor? >> I I opposed. Motion passes. Approval of accelerate education agreement 2526. >> Um Accelerate is how we've delivered our online AL program. Um we are scaling back on some of the programming that we're offering because actually a lot of it is already going to be covered by that imagine learning agreement. So we felt a fiscal responsibility that we would scale that project back.
008It's actually a lower cost contract than that's been approved in the past. But so since we are changing the terms of contract for >> a motion that >> I make a motion for the approval of the accelerate education agreement for 2526. >> Motion to approve. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. Approval of 2526 minimum basic ed requirements. >> Every obvious we approve our minimum basic ed requirements to certify that we were covering the Washington State Board of Education and OSPI graduate requirements for graduation. So attached is our verification. This will also be voted on and approved by the Washington State Board of Education under next meeting which actually is supposed to be today for the approval of 2526 minimum basic ed requirements. >> I'll second that. >> There's the motion made. Any further
009discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries. Reports good of the order. We have had a lot of great things that have happened this summer and I want to don't want to remmit be remiss on our facilities department how much work they spend getting everything ready to go. Parking lots have been cleared, classrooms be cleared out getting every single copy ready to go. So I just want to point out on our operations team ensuring that our district is ready to open up doors. We spent the last two days in our administrative retreat. This will probably drive the future agenda topic. Our administrators have gone through the strategic plan looking at our student achievement data. What work has been done? What work can't be done? And I think we have a our administrators
010presented and came up with products on how they feel that they can continue moving our strategic plan forward with the new round of work that needs to be done on the greater vision. Um Eric is actually stepping into our early learning team. Or do you have any thoughts on how our administrative recruits all really proud of the administrative teams. Um, I would like to I haven't met with Michael yet when we set the agenda and I think he's going to be on vacation probably right up to the board agenda, but I'd like to include within the next agenda kind of the the proposed updates to our strategic planning document on where administrators feel like this is where we've accomplished the work in the strategic plan and this is where the work needs to go forward
011to kind of continue on our mission for every kindergarten, every kindergartener arriving ready. Um, all of our classes taught to grade level standards. All of our students leaving prepared for some sort of career and college readiness goal. Either they're certified for career or they have college credits from the court in their education and our UDL work to make sure we have scaffolding supports. So, our administrators broke apart those goals, broke out what they think we need to get done over the next uh this year and what specific things will be done in this year as we continue our work going forward. Um Arizona State University has a program called I know we have a partnership with Arizona State University. This is different. It's called the um Center for Reinventing Public Education. Um it's a research
012hub of Arizona State University doctoral researchers that kind of investigate what's going on and publish reports on what's going on around the nation. uh we were highlighted in their AI adopters report that's also going to be done in part that's going to do a follow-up study in partnership with Stanford University on our our adoption of AI. Um most districts using AI are adopting it to kind of like write letters kind of correspondence. Um we have a training our staff development training on Tuesday is where our teachers are looking at pulling out academic standards and then how we bring those standards into AI to create activities that students can do in their class. So our training on Tuesday will involve and this has been totally we have lots of teachers that are already doing this work.
013So it's those teachers doing that work that were highlighted in this uh national model report on AI adoption. So, it's nice to have Elma School District called out as this national model for our teachers doing this work. John Guerrero will be training um where the teachers are going to come in and they're going to take a survey of their own personal interests. Then we will take the personal interest survey of the teachers and run it into an AI with academic standards to show like how you can actually use AI to start framing out lessons that a student has a personal interest in fishing and on measurement how you can build out these academic standards or these projects on the fly that align to student interest and need. So, our Tuesday training will actually be an
014expansion of what Arizona State uh did a publication on for our work that we've been. So, we're pretty excited about our staff professional development as we're moving forward in an area where everything is academic with standards aligned and students are being able to really find what interests them and to show how they're learning the skills that they need. So then one of the approvals was we were inducted into a a publishing partnership with the Harvard Department of Education and and one of the travels is to actually go to New Jersey where they're printing off all the state tests. So actually get an early release of all the new state tests before they're being done and kind of run it through the lens of our area of expertise. So since our district runs the nation's work
015for the national superintendent's work for uh career and college readiness, they wanted us to see here's the new ESVback tests that are going to be coming out and then having an ability to actually give input on editing and changing what's going to be in the state test because of our status as a district leading the sport around the nation. So I find it's nice, you know, normally we complain about what's on the state test, but then actually having a voice on what will be on the state test on how are we preparing students. So that was that note edition. So now we're being in a spot where we actually get to start giving an opinion. That's in Princeton, New Jersey where every state test comes out. So those are some exciting things that are coming
016out for our district. Well, the last thing that's happening is uh we are moving forward. There's an epic effort to have a civic organization within Elma McCclary. So Elma mccclary is standing up a new Lions Club. So, we talked about it today within our admin team. Our administrative team is looking to make a commitment to have representation as part of the new element with Clary Science Club. Um, there's looking for 20 members. There's currently six, but we do feel that having a civic organization looking at ways in which we can make our community better and having a strong community school district participation within the student alliance club would also be in the best interest of our district. I know Brad Thomas from Sun Pacific Hospital was at the meeting with us. Pacific is also of
017the same mindset of having kind of a broad impact on how we can be members. So we discussed it with our principal team, our principal team. All three principles are looking at joining from all three of the buildings as a way that we have a voice on some of the civic needs of our so 20 members. We have six currently will be an offshoot of Cosmopolis, but we think it's the right place for our district leadership to be as far as responding to our I don't have anything. >> I'll do a shout out that Domino's is um promoting Monday's their open house, but they are doing 10% of all the sales is being donated to the high school ASB. So, um they're hoping to break their sales rate record that day. So, um, support any
018business, but directly it supports our own kids. So, that's a great give back to the community. >> Do the kids seek that or do you don't >> actually we saw I saw it online. No, I actually was at Starbucks and I saw the guy and he's like, "Oh, we're opening Monday. I didn't know like one of their assistant people and he's like, "Yeah, Monday we're going to give 10% of all the proceeds back to the high school." And I said, "Oh, well, that's great." So then Meredith reached out to him as ASKJ and said could we make a Instagram post and so they started sharing out the social media for it. So and I did see that he reached back and asked if there would be some students that'd be willing to come and like
019wave science or something that kind of adds some student excitement. So I'm not sure how that's going but good partnership. And thank you. Okay. Seeing no other items, >> I make a motion that we adjourn the meeting. >> I will second that. Meeting adjourned. Brian is run